- A few lvs. w. some tiny surface dam. spots. Dustwr. sl. creased and worn.
= Parr/ Badger I, p. 245: "Ed van der Elsken was the best known internationally of the Dutch photographers of the 1950s and 60s, due in no small measure to this book, which took the genre of the Dutch photonovel to a new level (...)."
= Comprises the book Etant donné Marcel Duchamp #5 (Paris, 2003, ills., orig. wr., 4to. Signed by N. FINKELSTEIN on htitle), 5 silver prints under passepartout depicting i.a. SALVADOR DALÍ, MARCEL DUCHAMP and ANDY WARHOL. The photographs were taken during a session in which Warhol photographed Marcel Duchamp.
- Lower joint splitting at top of spine; backcover sl. scratched.
= Parr/ Badger II, p.278. Series of photographs of (empty) boardroom tables of European multinational corporations. "The Table of Power is at once a completely objective book and a wholly subversive one. (...) the book's subversiveness emanates from its very objectivity. It presents the simple facts about a particular and powerful symbol of power, and by drawing our attention to it forces us to think about what these facts might represent and conceal - a large subject contained in a deliciously small package" (Parr/ Badger).
- Dustwr. frayed. Otherwise fine.
= Cf. Derra de Moroda 1368 (6th ed.). Fine photographic studies of dancers in various surroundings outdoors.
- Small annot. on first free endpaper. Dustwr. sl. rubbed in outer corners and sm. tear in upper margin of backwrapper.
Idem. Kalypso & Nausikaä. Amst., De Verbeelding, 2004, 1st ed., (48)p., (full-p.) photogr. ills. by A. KANDO, orig. boards., 4to.
= Cf. Parr/ Badger I, p.244.
Elsken, E. van der. Eye love you. Bussum, Holkema & Warendorf, 1977, 1st ed. (?), no pagination, num. col. photogr. ills., orig. clothbacked boards, 4to. - AND 8 others, i.a. N. VAN ONNA, NYC360 (n.pl., 2012, full-p. col. photogr. ills., orig. boards, folio) and K. WESSING, China 85/07 (Antw., 2007, num. ills., orig. boards, obl. 4to).
- Corner frontwr. creased; edges backwr. sl. dustsoiled. = Parr/ Badger I, p.244.
Idem. Wij zijn 17. Introd. S. Carmiggelt. Bussum, C.A.J. van Dishoeck, n.d. (±1960), 4th ed., no pagination, photogr. plates and orig. wr. by J. VAN DER KEUKEN.
- Lamination loosening along spine. = Parr/ Badger I, p.244.
AND 5 others, i.a. E. ANDRIESSE, Beeldroman. Text J.B. Charles (The Hague, 1956, 1st ed., num. photogr. ills., orig. cl., 4to); N. JESSE, Mensen van Menko (Enschede, n.d. (1956), 1st ed., num. photogr. ills., orig. boards, 4to) and G. HEYEN, Waren wij maar 17. Introd. R. Campert (Amst., 1958, photogr. ills., orig. boards, sm. 8vo).
- Cloth sl. browned. Frontwr. sl. stained/ discoloured and sl. worn along extremities.
= Parr/ Badger I, p.248-249.
AND 1 other by the same: Wij zijn 17 (Bussum, n.d., 4th ed., ills., orig. wr. Owner's entry on inside wr.).
- Lacks one plate; rebacked w. cloth; boards sl. chafed.
= Rare photography portfolio. Löwy was an Austrian photographer who specialized in portrait and atelier photography, including the Belle monde of Vienna (i.a. actors and artists). After the Anschluss he emigrated to Brasil with his wife. According to the colophon 1000 copies were printed, but because of its rarity probably much less.
= Parr/ Wassink Lundgren, The Chinese Photobook from the 1900s to the Present, p.398.
Idem. Give me your image. Gött., Steidl, 2006, no pagination, full-p. col. photogr. plates by the same, orig. boards.
= SIGNED in pen on title-p.
AND 2 others by the same, i.a. Vrouwen te gast (Amst., 1979, ills., orig. limp boards, obl. 8vo).
- Wrappers trifle soiled/ backstrip browned; spine-ends chipped.
= Album du premier Salon International du nu photographique Paris 1933. Photographs of female nudes by i.a. L. Moholy-Nagy, E.O. Hoppé, Man Ray, G. Platt Lynes, F. Drtikol, A. Feininger and H. von Perckhammer.
- Loosening; upper hinge broken; first free endpaper loose. Backstrip wrinkled and mounted on bookblock.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIII.
AND 1 similar by the same: The Human Figure in Motion (ibid., 1901, 2nd ed., num. photogr. ills., orig. giltlettered cl., obl. folio. Hinges broken; a few lvs. loose; owner's entry).
- Backstrip and upper edge frontcover sunned. = Van Sinderen p.278.
- Dustwrapper sl. chipped/ foxed.
= Parr/ Badger I, p.196: "This book was published two years after the liberation of Holland from the Nazis. It marks both an end and a beginning. When it was published, the leading members of the Underground Camera group, like the country, were about to move on. As members of a new group, GKf, most of them took part in the exhibition 'Foto '48'. Amsterdam tijdens den[sic] hongerwinter [...] looked back, while 'Foto '48' looked forward, but both shared a manifesto that made a passionate plea for an anti-formalist documentary photography that would help forge a more just and free Holland, following the occupation. [...] Nevertheless, the publication's first task was to bear witness [...]. This snatched, off-kilter approach generated an immediate, spontaneous aesthetic of its own, which fed directly into postwar Dutch photography in an extremely positive way. So this was an important book in that sense also. It was a landmark publication by a group of photographers with both an ethical and an aesthetic attitude, a group who would exert a great influence on Dutch photography and the Dutch photobook in the late 1940s and 50s."